At Pedallers’ we have mixed feelings about helmets.  Here is an well written, thorough article from CTC on helmet wearing, and helmet laws.

As American cycle campaigners persuade the US safety authorities to drop a key claim for the effectiveness of helmets, and new evidence suggesting that Canada’s helmet laws had no detectable effect, the BMA’s stance on helmet laws is questioned by Ben Goldacre of ‘Bad Science’ fame.